battlefield

Etymology

battle + field

noun

  1. The area where a land battle is or was fought, which is not necessarily a field.
    The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
    Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place. 1939 September, John D. Hewitt, “The Kington Branch of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 191

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